April 2023
Profile of MVTC’s Summer Projects 2023
“The Methow Valley Trails Collaborative is helping coordinate several projects to maintain and repair trails, such as replacing bridges, restoring trails damaged in recent fires, and repairing erosion caused by heavy hiker traffic.”
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August 2022
Profile of MVTC’s summer projects
Just over three months into the job, Methow Valley Trails Collaborative’s first and only employee is working to create a sustainable future for the organization.
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MARCH 2022
MVTC incorporates as non-profit
The Methow Valley Trails Collaborative, created six years ago, brings together a wide array of trail users with the common goal of improving and maintaining trails around the valley. Trails Collaborative members recently decided to step up their game and incorporate as a nonprofit organization. That will give the collaborative greater capacity to apply for state and federal grant funding and hire staff to carry out trail projects.
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JUNE 2018
MVTC Named Organization of the Year
The Methow Valley Trails Collaborative recently received Organization of the Year award from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. The Methow Valley Trails Collaborative was honored for leveraging more than 10,000 hours of trail work to maintain more than 1,000 miles of local winter and summer trails. The award specifically acknowledged the recent efforts to create a sustainable trail system at Lewis Butte/Riser Lake, which was heralded as “a prime example of how recreation and conservation can coexist.”
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MARCH, 2018
Methow Valley Named Priority Area
The Methow Valley Ranger District was selected by the Department of Agriculture as one of 15 priority areas around the nation. The designation gives the district additional funding that can be used for local volunteers and outside organizations to help maintain trails that are withing the district. “The priority area designation is largely because of the Trails Collaborative’s work and their commitment to being partners with us in trail maintenance,” Liu said. “It a recognition by the Forest Service that trails are an important part of our management and recreation, and given our capacity we need to be developing these types of partnerships … to manage trails networks that meet public needs into the future.”
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